The Pentagon promised to continue air strikes on the advancing Taliban

Despite the withdrawal of the military contingent from Afghanistan, the United States will continue to strike at the militants of the Taliban movement * (banned in Russia as terrorist). This was stated by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday, Kirby said the United States is concerned about the recent situation in Afghanistan. According to him, the Pentagon has the capacity to assist government forces and has the authority to do so. Therefore, air strikes against the Taliban will continue.

We have the authority and capacity to (...) assist Afghan forces on the ground through airstrikes. We acknowledge that we are and will continue to do airstrikes to support them.

- he said.

At the same time, Kirby refused to disclose how decisions are made to attack the Taliban, explaining that the Afghan Air Force itself inflicts airstrikes and there are much more of them than the American ones.

Meanwhile, the American State Department announced the threat of a civil war in Afghanistan. According to the head of the press service of the US State Department, Ned Price, the actions of the Taliban may lead to this. Price acknowledged that negotiations between the government and the Taliban are proceeding at a slow pace as the fighting continues.

Today the Taliban control the border with five neighboring states - Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, China and Pakistan. The next task is to cut communications between major cities, taking control of the main territory of the provinces.

Comments

[Victor_B]

They made their legs from Afgan, and still waving their wings ...

[Starover_Z]

The Pentagon has the capacity and mandate to assist government forces. Therefore, air strikes against the Taliban will continue.

Well, now they will bomb everything they see and report that they bombed the militants.
Not the first and not the last time, alas.

[napalm]

Legs, wings. The main thing is the tail, set in and run or set in and fly. And if they tear it off, you can grow a new one.

[knn54]

It looks like Kabul will still fight.

[Cananecat]

We can only guess what this war will cost Kabul.

[rocket757]

Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday, Kirby said the United States is concerned about the recent situation in Afghanistan.

Cool ... the question is, will they take revenge, minke or not?

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

..... Kirby said the US is concerned about the recent situation in Afghanistan.

Cool ...

good morning Victor, one might think that they could not even imagine this situation.

[rocket757]

Hi Dmitry
We must remember, proceed from the postulate that they often prefer to live in their own illusions. Not the fact that it was intentional, because their intelligence has slipped to ... it is clear to what extent.

[Reptiloid]

Then it is all the more incomprehensible. Are gone. Now what? They were worried. What was the whole performance for?

[rocket757]

And now China is getting in there ... not to fight, of course, but by its usual methods!
If they succeed, which is very likely, it will be like a Faberge sickle for minke whales!

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

And now China is getting in there ... not to fight, ......

despite the size of the PLA, weapons, they did not fight specific battles in this century?
Well yes! The staff did not even imagine that the Chinese could be of interest there.

[rocket757]

They had, because China's interests in that region are no secret, for a long time ... okay, if it was an omission of intelligence, but when it is known even to the layman, who is very interested in such things from the side ... KNEW, but nothing against doing it already can not.
The vulture is growing decrepit, and its problems are over the roof, EVERYWHERE.

[Reptiloid]

China now has interests everywhere.
And about the decrepitude of the vulture is somehow surprising ... ... after so many years of predation.

[rocket757]

China does not change both the interesy and the problems.
Time will tell which system, strength, stable and stronger.

[Pandiurin]

Quote: rocket757

Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday, Kirby said the United States is concerned about the recent situation in Afghanistan.

Cool ... the question is, will they take revenge, minke or not?

How to take revenge?
They used to sit at their bases and especially did not climb out. Now they have left all the remote places, and probably only stayed in Kabul. And in Kabul, the pro-government forces still feel relatively confident.

So the Taliban have no opportunity to take revenge. If only someone deeply recruited from the Taliban into the pro-government forces as a suicide bomber enters the territory where the striped ...

If there is such a cadre, then the Taliban should not be scattered like this on the eve of the struggle for Kabul, they can be much more useless in the supply of intelligence, sabotage, agitation and recruitment among the pro-government forces when it gets very hot.

[rocket757]

Quote: Pandiurin

How to take revenge?

Who seeks will always find ...
Stripes will settle somewhere nearby, you can get to them.
However, the question was rhetorical, although some aspects of future events, not directly, so indirectly, may bring striped losses that will not be better than direct damage.

[gsev]

Quote: Pandiurin

And in Kabul, the pro-government forces still feel relatively confident.

And the Taliban mortarmen seemed to have confidently plowed the Kabul airfield.

[tihonmarine]

We have the authority and capacity to (...) assist Afghan forces on the ground through airstrikes.

Like rats with their tails between their legs, they fled, and now "Let's bomb!" You can bomb while the Taliban have no aircraft. And so all over the world - "just bomb". This is the democracy of the "grandchildren of the pirates of Nassau", there is nothing new.

[grassyknollgunner]

The pro-American junta is in a panic, asks to convene an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council ...

https://twitter.com/MHaneefAtmar/status/1422609477820424199

[iouris]

It's time to install the S-400.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

To whom? Taliban? What? It's okay, I guess ... They have money. After all, not for nothing or on credit.

[Russ]

In response to terrorist acts committed by unknown persons, the United States bombed anywhere ...........

[taiga2018]

Well, this is what the Americans only know how to bomb from a safe distance, bomb weddings, funerals, etc.

[Roma 1977]

It is not entirely clear where they will take off from. If we talk about operational fire support, then the base should be a hundred kilometers from the battlefield. And if we are talking about one-time operations, then what is their meaning?

[Pandiurin]

Quote: Roma-1977

It is not entirely clear where they will take off from. If we talk about operational fire support, then the base should be a hundred kilometers from the battlefield. And if we are talking about one-time operations, then what is their meaning?

Intensive and massive support is helicopters, respectively, with the risk of losing the turntable and crew. This is what pro-government forces are doing.

"Point" strikes can be delivered by the Americans from UAVs, a nearby airfield is not required, and the UAV can be in the combat zone for almost a day.
True, the effectiveness is controversial, from the quality and availability of intelligence, you can liquidate someone high-ranking and important, or you can get a wedding done.

[Dimon-chik-79]

Just as we threw the Afghan government in the past, so we did it today. And to save face, the Yankees trumpet about some kind of airstrikes
In general, I wonder why the Americans left the country? Want to leave behind the flames of the chaos of the civil war, in the hope that it will set the entire region on fire? or for what reason? ...

[Alt 22]

"we" - in the sense, Americans? Russia has promised nothing to this Afghan government, the puppets of the American occupiers, and is not obliged to do anything. The current Afghan government in general is collaborators fighting terrorists - a classic fight between a toad and a viper.

[Soldatov V.]

Remove all Russians, from the diplomat to the attendants and the traveling madmen from Afghanistan. Forget it like a nightmare and forget about Afghanistan for 10-20 years. Let them boil in their own juice, seasoning with the Americans, NATO, Turkey, whoever you want.

[Gunther]

The next task is to cut
communications between major cities ...

and this task will be accomplished, taking into account the terrain, regardless of the airstrikes of the mattresses.
Of course, the Yankel Air Force is head and shoulders above the Saudi Air Force, but nevertheless the fact is that in Yemen, the aviation could not turn the tide of the DB.

[savage1976]

And they will bomb with boxes of weapons, grenades, communications equipment, uniforms and medicines. We remember seeing how they bombed the ISIS (prohibited in the Russian Federation).